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Germany shuts 7 coal power stations after winter ends - DW (Mar 31) |
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Mar 31 · The power plants were either restarted or had their shutdowns delayed to cope with a shortfall of gas supplies during winter. Germany has weaned itself of Russian natural gas since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Seven coal-fired power stations in Germany were shut down over Easter, power generators RWE and LEAG said on Sunday.
The government took five plants out of mothballs to cope with a shortfall in gas supplies through the winter as Europe's largest economy sought to reduce its dependency on Russian gas.
Two more were allowed to continue operating after their scheduled shutdown dates.
Which plants have been taken offline?
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Thousands March Through Amsterdam Calling for Climate Action Ahead of Dutch General Election - DW (Nov 12) |
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Nov 12 · Tens of thousands of people were joined by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as they marched through the Dutch capital demanding lawmakers take action.
Tens of thousands of people marched through Amsterdam on Sunday demanding immediate action on climate change, just 10 days before the Netherlands holds a general election.
According to the police, about 70,000 people took part in the protest. Among them were climate activist Greta Thunberg and former EU climate chief Frans Timmermans, who will lead the combined Labor and Green parties in the upcoming elections.
The mainly young participants carried placards such as "Our house is on fire" and "Cut the crap, ... Read more ...
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Alpine tourism threatened by overcrowding and climate change – DW – 11/06/2023 - DW (Nov 6) |
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Nov 6 · The Alps are threatened by mass tourism and climate change. Will tourism as we know it still be possible in the region?
Wonderful views, long mountain slopes, solitary peaks and snow-covered tranquility - Europe's Alpine region is the place to be for many travelers in both summer and winter.
Increasingly, though, the Alps are becoming infamous for traffic jams, overcrowded villages and pleasure seekers obstructing hiking trails and skiing slopes. What used to be idyllic Alpine villages in pristine landscapes have been transformed into ugly concrete fortresses of mass accommodation.
More recently, the effects of climate change are compounding the woes of the Alps. ... Read more ...
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Antarctic Ocean Conservation Body under pressure to live up to its name - DW (Oct 12, 2023) |
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Oct 12, 2023 · A new study has found that almost half of Antarctica's ice shelves are shrinking. This could increase ice loss from glaciers and affect the ocean's ability to absorb carbon.
Around 40% of Antarctica's ice shelves shrunk in the past 25 years, according to a new study published on Thursday.
Scientists found 68 of Antarctica's 162 ice shelves experienced a "statistically significant" reduction in mass between 1997 and 2021.
"We expected most ice shelves to go through cycles of rapid, but short-lived shrinking, then to regrow slowly," said Benjamin Davison, a research fellow at the University of Leeds, who was the lead author of the study d="M11.5 3.5 11.5 ... Read more ...
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Canadian wildfires fueled by climate change, study shows – DW – 08/22/2023 - DW (Aug 22, 2023) |
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Aug 22, 2023 · The record extreme fires in Quebec, Canada this summer were twice as likely to happen and burned more intensely due to human-caused global heating, say researchers.
When New York was choking on the smoke from distant eastern Canadian wildfires in early June, it was just the beginning of the huge blazes.
By August, the fires had spread to Canada's west coast and have now burned nearly twice as much nationally than the previous record set in 1989, according to a new report by the World Weather Attribution (WWA), a climate change research initiative.
The unprecedented 14 million hectares (34.6 million acres) of burned area - larger than Greece - prompted the WWA to ... Read more ...
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Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023 - DW (Jul 29, 2023) |
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Jul 29, 2023 · Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel, said it was not helpful to imply that temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius posed an existential threat to humanity.
The newly appointed head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jim Skea, spoke to two major German news outlets over the weekend, soon after his appointment to the role.
Speaking to weekly magazine Der Spiegel, in an interview first published on Saturday, Skea warned against laying too much value on the international community's current nominal target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared the pre-industrial era.
"We should not despair and ... Read more ...
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Netherlands: Police arrest 1500 climate activists at protest – DW – 05/28/2023 - DW (May 27, 2023) |
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May 27, 2023 · The protest organizer, Extinction Rebellion, said thousands joined the demonstration in the Hague. Police said 40 of those arrested would be prosecuted for "vandalism."
Dutch police arrested over 1500 climate protesters after a climate protest garnered thousands of participants in the Hague, the Netherlands' seat of government.
The protest was called for by Extinction Rebellion, a group that originated in the UK which uses non-violent albeit disruptive protest methods to raise climate awareness.
Protesters blocked a section of a motorway, near the base of both the Dutch parliament and the prime minister's offices. Extinction Rebellion said some 7,000 took ... Read more ...
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Berlin climate referendum falls short – DW – 03/26/2023 - DW (Mar 26, 2023) |
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Mar 26, 2023 · Berliners voted in a referendum on a proposal to make the German capital climate neutral 15 years earlier than planned. However, not enough voted 'yes' in order for it to pass.
Not enough voters in Berlin supported a push to make the German capital carbon neutral by 2030, results from a referendum showed on Sunday.
A small majority, 50.9% of voters, did support the motion. However, overall turnout was less than 50% and not enough people voted in favor of the motion for it to become law.
To pass, it would have needed majority support, and the support of at least 25% of the eligible electorate.
Roughly 442,000 people voted in favor and roughly 423,000 ... Read more ...
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Will climate change cut off the Panama Canal? – DW – 05/29/2023 - DW (Dec 19, 2022) |
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Dec 19, 2022 · The English say so much depends on the weather, from battles in war to aid work. But our predictions are seldom perfect.
You wake up and look at your phone to check the weather - it's going to be 5°C with a 50% chance of rain. So, you think of wearing a warm jacket, that cozy scarf your grandma made you and consider taking an umbrella as well. And you feel set for come what may.
It feels so easy to get the information these days, with so many devices around us - our smartphones, watches, tablets and laptops - giving us immediate access to weather forecasts. But we can just as easily forget all that has to happen behind the scenes to get it right.
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NGOs sue in French court over oil project in AfricaDW's Top Story - DW (Dec 08, 2022) |
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Dec 08, 2022 · A civilian court case in France hopes to block an oil exploration project in Uganda and Tanzania developed by energy giant TotalEnergies. It's a beacon of hope for civil rights groups.
French petroleum giant TotalEnergies' Tilenga project plans to exploit the oil and gas resources from near Lake Albert in western Uganda, which it estimates at over 1 billion barrels. Once completed, Eacop, a buried pipeline almost 1,500 kilometers (about 930 miles) long, would cross neighboring Tanzania and link the oilfield to the Indian Ocean.
The company has said the development, which includes 400 wells, dozens of which fall inside the Murchison Falls National Park, will create ... Read more ...
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Defending the environment can be a death sentence - DW (Nov 30, 2022) |
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Nov 30, 2022 · More than 1,700 environmental and land defenders have been killed in the last decade. Most of them were Indigenous people - and most were in Latin America, a DW analysis shows.
When Indonesia's government decided to build a new capital, environmental defenders sounded the alarm. Sinking Jakarta will be the first metropolis to lose its capital status due to the climate crisis. But the decision to house the seat of government on the lush island of Borneo could worsen environmental damage in the archipelago and displace Indigenous communities from their ancestral lands, critics say.
While plans for a new capital city are recent, the fight for land rights is an old story for ... Read more ...
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What's the link between global heating and extreme weather? – DW – 12/27/2022 - DW (Jul 11, 2021) |
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Jul 11, 2021 · Authorities have imposed evacuations, road closures and limited train traffic as North America experiences severe temperatures. Heat warnings were issued for some cities, with record-breaking temperatures likely.
People across the US and Canada continued to suffer due to soaring temperatures on Sunday, as a heat wave forced evacuations, road closures, and limited train traffic.
The National Weather Service said on its website, "A dangerous heat wave will affect much of the western US, with record-breaking temperatures likely." Excess heat warnings were issued for the cities of Phoenix and San Jose.
Parts of Canada and the US had seen similar extreme weather ... Read more ...
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Climate scientists, what keeps you up at night? Deutsche Welle - DW (Apr 06, 2021) |
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Apr 06, 2021 · From atmospheric physicists to urban climatologists, DW spoke to researchers who study the many and varied aspects of climate change about what concerns them most as our planet heats up.
What worries scientists the most when it comes to climate change? We have the answers
What really makes this reporter's stomach churn thinking about climate change? Thawing permafrost. A scenario where it all melts, releasing copious amounts of CO2 and methane (it holds twice as much carbon as the atmosphere holds right now), and there's no going back.
But what's at the top of the list of concerns for those who study how climate change is unfolding – on ice sheets and urban street ... Read more ...
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How global warming can cause Europe's harsh winter weather - DW (Feb 11, 2021) |
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Feb 11, 2021 · Climate deniers are using a spell of unusually cold weather in Europe to incorrectly argue that CO2 emissions are not warming the planet.
Large parts of Germany have been blanketed in snow
As Germans shiver through double-digit negative temperatures and more than 80 centimeters (30 inches) of snow in parts of the country, climate science deniers have taken to social media to argue that global warming is a hoax.
Their claim - which has been repeatedly debunked by climate scientists - is that extremely cold weather shows that carbon dioxide emissions are not warming the Earth.
In fact, the effects of global warming may even have favored the extremely cold ... Read more ...
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Russia's Vladimir Putin doubts man-made climate change, backs Trump - DW (Dec 19, 2019) |
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Dec 19, 2019 · The Russian president has turned heads with remarks on climate change, the eastern Ukrainian conflict and Trump's impeachment. In his end-of-year press conference, he said he thought a new arms race with the US "is bad."
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held his annual end-of-year news conference during which he answered questions posed by journalists, including on subjects such as the impeachment of US President Donald Trump and peace talks with Ukraine.
Here are the highlights of his remarks.
'Nobody knows the origins of global climate change'
Putin cast doubt on the man-made origins of global warming, saying "nobody knows the origins of global ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Why religious narratives are crucial to tackling climate change - DW (Nov 23, 2019) |
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Nov 23, 2019 · Environmental changes like global warming are menacing the entire ecosystem. DW's Eco Islam conference emphasized the need for using eco-friendly religious messages to make an impact. Shamil Shams reports from Karachi.
The climate-change discourse is generally considered a Western concept in most Islamic nations. Pakistan, a country of around 220 million people, is not any different. First of all, climate change is hardly a topic of public discussion, as was evidenced by the fact that only a few thousand people participated in the Fridays for Future march in September. A majority of people, often struggling to make ends meet, either don't pay attention to environmental ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Climate change reinforces the world's inequalities - DW (Oct 25, 2019) |
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Oct 25, 2019 · Climate change exacerbates inequalities, not only in poor, developing countries, but also in industrialized, wealthy ones. The poor should be given special importance when planning, experts say.
As drought, flooding and fires lay claim to headlines and landscapes across the world, and as countries and cities grapple with the cost of it all, the highest price is already being paid — by those who are poor or marginalized.
Such are the findings of a recent study by researchers Noah S. Diffenbaugh and Marshall Burke. It reveals that the economic gap between rich and poor countries would have been smaller without the climate crisis.
"India's per capita GDP [gross ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Alaska: Climate change threatens indigenous traditions - DW (Oct 23, 2019) |
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Oct 23, 2019 · Indigenous groups in the US state of Alaska, also referred to as Alaska Natives, have already seen climate change disrupt their subsistence way of life. But they are trying to adapt.
Teresa Hunter lives in Chuathbaluk, a Yup'ik village in the southwest of Alaska. The name means "The Great Blueberry."
Chuathbulak is a tiny village of less than 100 people that exists off the road system. The only way to get there is by boat or plane in the summer, and by plane or driving on frozen rivers and the tundra during the winter.
Like many rural Alaska Native communities, Chuathbulak doesn't have a hospital, and its two grocery stores mostly stock food that doesn't spoil ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Portugal wildfire declared under control - DW (Jul 24, 2019) |
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Jul 24, 2019 · We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration.
Firefighters have expressed optimism as they battle against the inferno that has been raging in central Portugal since the weekend. Nearly 40 people have been injured in the blazes. | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Russia frozen on climate change - DW (Jul 08, 2019) |
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Jul 08, 2019 · We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration.
Vladimir Putin has talked about global warming's toll as Siberia's Irkutsk region struggles to recover from floods. But there's a simple reason why Russia won't get behind climate protection policies, says Andrey Gurkov. | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Climate change compounds hunger, conflicts, German aid group says - DW (Jun 26, 2019) |
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Jun 26, 2019 · Climate change added to warfare is worsening hunger worldwide, according to one of Germany's largest aid groups. Welthungerhilfe has said many poor have "no more reserves or resilience left" when hit by extreme weather.
The world's southern hemisphere poor were bearing the brunt of climate change caused by rich, fossil-fuel consumers of the global North, Welthungerhilfe President Marlehn Thieme said in Berlin on Wednesday.
Presenting the Bonn-based organization's annual report for 2018, Thieme said climate change amounted to a "question of justice" in ensuring that resources — still sufficient worldwide to feed everyone — reached the poorest.
Hunger victims, often ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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US billionaires call for new 'wealth tax' to fight climate change - DW (Jun 25, 2019) |
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Jun 25, 2019 · We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration.
Twenty of the wealthiest people in the US have urged the next president to impose taxes on the rich to combat climate change and increase access to health care. They said the US has an "economic responsibility" to do so. | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Opinion: Russia frozen on climate change - DW (Jun 07, 2019) |
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Jun 07, 2019 · Vladimir Putin has talked about global warming's toll as Siberia's Irkutsk region struggles to recover from floods. But there's a simple reason why Russia won't get behind climate protection policies, says Andrey Gurkov.
With the devastating flood that has ravished the Irkutsk region in Siberia, Russia is experiencing one of its worst natural catastrophes in decades. More than 20 deaths have already been reported, and more than 33,000 people have been affected.
For most, that means much more than flooded basements or ground floors filled with mud; rather, it's the loss of their very livelihood. Their wooden houses were swept away by floodwaters, their animals perished ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Women in Senegal left to weather climate change alone - DW (Jun 03, 2019) |
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Jun 03, 2019 · Senegalese coastal villages are affected by climate change and overfishing. While many men leave to seek employment abroad, women often stay behind and try to adapt to life between rising sea levels and desertification.
Almata Diagne and four of her six children have taken cover from the sun beneath a makeshift tent on the beach in Ndiebene Gandiol, western Senegal.
The oldest daughter, Magat, carries her 4-month-old sister in a shawl on her back while she helps her mother put the fish they've just bought from a middleman into a bucket. Later, Almata will take them to market in the larger town of Saint-Louis.
The average of roughly 10 euros ($11) a day she makes ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Berlin students fight to get climate change onto lesson plans - DW (Jun 02, 2019) |
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Jun 02, 2019 · Are schools equipping kids with the skills to understand and deal with climate change? Some German students don't think so and are trying to get their curriculum changed.
Victoria Bederov tilts her head to one side and considers the question for a moment. What does the 18-year-old Berlin student think about climate education in German schools?
"The climate education is unfortunately horrible," she says definitively. Her fellow students at the Private Kant School in Berlin, 19-year-old Alina Runk and 18-year-old Leonie Brockmann, nod furiously in agreement.
The three final-year high students say the education system is failing to equip children and teenagers with ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Riesling wine, holding out between pesticides and climate change - DW (May 28, 2019) |
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May 28, 2019 · We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration.
Climate change, new pests and diseases are threatening Riesling wine. Warmer temperatures are forcing winemakers to increase the use of plant protection methods, namely pesticides. | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Rhode Island high school prepares students for offshore wind jobs - DW (Apr 18, 2019) |
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Apr 18, 2019 · Just off the coast of Rhode Island, the nation's first commercial offshore wind farm began operating three years ago. That has many in the region excited about the offshore wind industry.
Morse: "Having this opportunity for careers coming our way is something we want to help our students prepare for - at least to explore the idea that this is an area they might want to go into."
Barbara Morse is an assistant principal at North Kingstown High School. The school has started an offshore wind training program as an off-shoot of its existing engineering track. Its first students are expected to graduate next year.
In addition to engineering courses, students will take ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Pope tells Greta Thunberg to carry on her fight - DW (Apr 18, 2019) |
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Apr 18, 2019 · We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration.
The teenage climate activist and the leader of the world's Catholics agree that the world needs to fight climate change. Pope Francis gave his blessing for Thunberg's fight for the climate. | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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The women left to face climate change and overfishing alone DW 06.03.2019 - DW (Mar 07, 2019) |
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Mar 07, 2019 · Senegalese coastal villages are affected by climate change and overfishing. While many men leave to seek employment abroad, women often stay behind and try to adapt to life between rising sea levels and desertification.
Almata Diagne and four of her six children have taken cover from the sun beneath a makeshift tent on the beach in Ndiebene Gandiol, western Senegal.
The oldest daughter, Magat, carries her 4-month-old sister in a shawl on her back while she helps her mother put the fish they've just bought from a middleman into a bucket. Later, Almata will take them to market in the larger town of Saint-Louis.
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Climate change a threat to world order, Munich Security Conference hears DW 17.02.2019 - DW (Feb 19, 2019) |
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Feb 19, 2019 · Few delegates at the Munich Security Conference showed up to discuss climate change. But those that did were reminded that the current collapse of the Earth's ecosystems is already causing conflict and mass migration.
School children might be taking to the streets to protest government inaction across Europe, and scientists might be predicting extreme weather and catastrophic food shortages across the world, but for the delegates of the Munich Security Conference , climate change does not seem to be a very urgent problem.
The main conference hall, packed out to celebrate Angela Merkel's plea for multilateralism, its occupants looking a little nonplussed when US ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Berlin students fight to get climate change onto lesson plans DW 06.02.2019 - DW (Feb 07, 2019) |
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Feb 07, 2019 · Are schools equipping kids with the skills to understand and deal with climate change? Some German students don't think so and are trying to get their curriculum changed.
Victoria Bederov tilts her head to one side and considers the question for a moment. What does the 18-year-old Berlin student think about climate education in German schools?
"The climate education is unfortunately horrible," she says definitively. Her fellow students at the Private Kant School in Berlin, 19-year-old Alina Runk and 18-year-old Leonie Brockmann, nod furiously in agreement.
The three final-year high students say the education system is failing to equip children and teenagers ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Climate protests: Germany's new green youth movement takes to the streets DW 21.01.2019 - DW (Jan 22, 2019) |
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Jan 22, 2019 · Worried teenagers are taking to the streets to protest against climate change. They are more interested in environmental politics than ever before. Will protest also turn into more climate action?
It's a cold January morning in front of Cologne Central Station. As people stream out of the main entrance, it's noticeable that there are quite a few teenagers. Strange, considering it's a school day.
Most of them have come in small groups, while others hang out in the main square outside of the station with friends. Many have brought homemade cardboard signs with them bearing painted-on slogans such as "We are here, we are loud, because you are stealing the future ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Climate protests: Germany's new green youth movement takes to the streets - DW (Jan 21, 2019) |
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Jan 21, 2019 · Worried teenagers are taking to the streets to protest against climate change. They are more interested in environmental politics than ever before. Will protest also turn into more climate action?
It's a cold January morning in front of Cologne Central Station. As people stream out of the main entrance, it's noticeable that there are quite a few teenagers. Strange, considering it's a school day.
Most of them have come in small groups, while others hang out in the main square outside of the station with friends. Many have brought homemade cardboard signs with them bearing painted-on slogans such as "We are here, we are loud, because you are stealing the future from us," ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Climate activists blacken Trevi Fountain over Italy floods – DW – 05/21/2023 - DW (Jan 14, 2019) |
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Jan 14, 2019 · The Church and the mayor of Rome are at odds over the reallocation of funds collected from the famous Trevi Fountain. Some of the money is set to address the city's ills and no longer go entirely to chairity.
The mayor of Rome and the Catholic Church are deeply at odds over what to do with the approximately €1.5 million ($1.7 million) in coins thrown into the iconic Trevi Fountain by tourists each year, local media reported on Monday.
Since 2001, the money has been given to the Catholic charity Caritas specifically to aid projects that help Rome's poor. However, now populist mayor Virginia Raggi is asking for the money to be spent on projects to repair the Italian ... Read more ...
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Germany to double donation for UN climate change fund - DW (Nov 28, 2018) |
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Nov 28, 2018 · The pledge comes ahead of a major UN climate conference. Donations to the UN Green Climate Fund are only a fraction of the $100 billion annual goal countries had pledged to reach by 2020.
Germany will increase funding for developing countries to fight and adapt to climate change, the development minister announced on Wednesday ahead of a major UN climate conference in Poland.
Gerd Müller said the German government would pay another €1.5 billion ($850 million) in to the UN Green Climate Fund, having already paid in a previous pledge of the same sum. Müller also encouraged other countries to increase their contributions.
The fund supports projects on climate ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Coal dilemma: Will Germany blow its CO2 budget? DW 28.09.2018 - DW (Oct 01, 2018) |
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Oct 01, 2018 · There's only so much greenhouse gas we can emit before global temperature rise exceeds 2 degrees - the so-called carbon budget. And Germany will blow its share of the budget if it doesn't quit coal soon, experts warn.
Global warming is pure physics. Climate gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that would normally escape into space.
Acting like a greenhouse, they trap the heat, and global temperatures rise.
In order to limit global warming and its dangerous and unpredictable effects on life on Earth, it's crucial to slow down the rate at which we're emitting these gases, and CO2 ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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Climate change: 'Fake news,' real fallout DW 24.07.2018 - DW (Jul 25, 2018) |
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Jul 25, 2018 · The science of climate change is complex, and in the era of "fake news," that complexity can be used to mislead and manipulate the public and decision-makers. How do we know who to trust?
The rapid deterioration of the very conditions that support life on Earth is something we should all have an interest in keeping abreast of in the news. But climate change is an extremely complex scientific problem, and tackling it is an expensive proposition in which many powerful players stand to lose.
Which means it isn't always easy to know if what you're reading in your morning paper or social media feed is entirely accurate.
"World leaders were duped into investing billions ... | By Deutsche Welle Read more ...
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